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Unsolved Homicide
by Antonio Rocco S. (Rocco Valentini)
No eyes return to the case file. No hands seek out new evidence. What killed the American Dream? ONE-EIGHT-SEVEN Once, red lights flashed Across tracks that carried us Toward new horizons. ONE-EIGHT-SEVEN Now, America's future rolls away In foreign boxcars As politicians punch tickets Like train conductors. ONE-EIGHT-SEVEN Their rhetoric roars like engines, Shuttling minds Down steel tracks toward oblivion. ONE-EIGHT-SEVEN Once, a single wage Built a home for many; Now, it scarcely shelters one. ONE-EIGHT-SEVEN A white picket fence on a suburban lawn, Now only a curtain pulled tight In a studio apartment. ONE-EIGHT-SEVEN Who signed our obituary? Was our death certificate printed In the same ink the Fed uses to print money? ONE-EIGHT-SEVEN What killed the American Dream? Footnote: ONE-EIGHT-SEVEN is police code for homicide.